Statistical Manager Tutorial

Statistical Manager

This is a cross-usage service that provides users and services with tools for performing data mining operations. Specifically, it offers a unique access to perform data mining and statistical operations on heterogeneous data, which may reside either on the client side, in the form of comma-separated values files, or be remotely hosted, possibly in a database. The SM service is able to take inputs and execute the operation requested by a client by invoking the most suited computational facility from a set of available computational resources. Executions can run either on multi-core machines or on different computational platforms, such as D4Science and other different private and commercial Cloud providers.

The SM Service is a container of algorithms that are implemented as plug-ins based on the Dependency Injection programming pattern. These reside on SM and can be invoked by infrastructural or external clients according to a public Web Services Description Language interface. The requests are managed asynchronously, and the client can monitor the status of the computation at any time.